High House Farmhouse

High House Farmhouse is a circa early 17th-century farmhouse that was extended in the 18th century. It is constructed of slatestone rubble walls, with parts slate-hung on the left-hand side. The house has a gabled slate roof with old crested ridge tiles at the right-hand end. There are four stone rubble stacks with dripcourses located at each gable end and axially, with a further large rubble stack to the rear of the left-hand leanto.

The original plan was a 3-room-and-through-passage layout, although the inner room on the left-hand side may have been an 18th-century addition. The hall was heated by a stack at its inner end. A newel staircase is located in a projection behind the lower end, which has since been subdivided. There was originally a two-storey porch at the front of the passage. 18th-century outshuts are present at the rear.

The front of the house is asymmetrical, with a four-window facade dominated by mainly 20th-century 2, 3, and 4-light casement windows. An original 20th-century horizontal sliding 4-pane sash window is located to the left of centre on the first floor. A gabled two-storey porch is situated to the right of centre, featuring a roundheaded doorway and a 17th-century studded door to the inner doorway. A tall, original courtyard wall with stone coping encloses approximately three-quarters of the front, with a central doorway at the front and doorways in the rear corner of each side wall. Steps lead down to the forecourt and the porch, flanked by low walls terminating in square piers with flat caps. The rear of the house features outshuts to the left and right, the left-hand one incorporating the newel stair projection. A first-floor original moulded 3-light wooden mullion window is situated at the centre.

Inside, the passage has an original screen on the left-hand side, composed of tall panels with shallow ovolo-moulded muntins. The hall features two heavy chamfered cross beams, a fireplace with a granite lintel on moulded stone corbels, a 17th-century moulded wooden doorframe from the passage to the lower end, and from the lower end to the wooden newel stairs. The stair projection contains a two-light moulded wooden mullion window, now enclosed by the rear leanto. Several 18th-century 2-panel doors are present throughout the house.

The house retains an interesting and unspoiled exterior and preserves several early features inside.